libapache2-mod-php5 software package provides server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module), you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
libapache2-mod-php5 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libapache2-mod-php5 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libapache2-mod-php5 *
You will get with libapache2-mod-php5 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | Web Servers |
| Package | libapache2-mod-php5 |
| Version | 5.6.27+dfsg-0+deb8u1 |
| Description | server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module) |
| Sub Section | HTTPD |